Policy action for climate change adaptation in East Africa

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Project description

The Policy Action for Climate Change Adaptation (PACCA) project seeks to inform and link policies and institutions from national to local level for the development and adoption of climate-resilient food systems in Uganda and Tanzania.

The project connects the scientific community with policy actors through learning alliances. Research evidence is generated through activities that include analyzing policy formulation and implementation processes, trade-off analysis, future socio-economic and climate scenario development, creating evidence-based gender awareness, and applied information economics.

The generated knowledge is exchanged with learning alliance members, who use it to implement policy engagement actions. The learning alliance participants include government technocrats and policy decision makers, scientists, non-governmental organizations, private sector representatives and farmers’ associations at national and sub-national levels.

The ambition is to encourage science-policy exchanges and create opportunities for stakeholders to express needs and current knowledge gaps, while educating participants about climate issues. All activities aim to better inform the implementation of climate-resilient policies that encourage the adoption of gender-responsive climate-smart agricultural practices across multiple scales in the two countries.

Future socio-economic and climate scenario development workshop with Learning Alliance members in Tanzania. Photo: E. van de Grift

This research aims to create a space in which various actors in Uganda and Tanzania work together to establish climate resilient policies and institutions that promote climate-smart agricultural practices. The actors include relevant ministries and departments, including Agriculture, Environment and Finance departments, local governments, NGOs, media, civil society, the private sector and research organizations. Key outcomes include:

Gender

Evidence was generated showing gender mainstreaming gaps in policy documents at national and sub-national levels and gaps in gender budgeting at local government level. The Parliament of Uganda was engaged with this evidence, and CCAFS has been invited by others to present at workshops. This evidence has informed the development of guidelines for mainstreaming gender in the National Adaptation Plan.

In 2017, this evidence will be taken to districts. The Learning Alliances in 2016 concentrated on supporting districts to develop climate resilient five-year development plans (2016-2020) and adaptation planning. While presenting the gender evidence in 2017, the Learning Alliance will address the membership issue.

Further information

For further information, please contact the Project Coordinator, Edidah Ampaire (IITA) at e.ampaire@cgiar.org.